Animals

Now that I'm alone I feel the lonely brokenness
 Of all the wicked avenues I've ever sold my love on
 All these moments of meekness and trembling subsided
 In the outright abandon of this orphan child
 Home is on the highway living on soft bread and solace
 I guess I'm waiting for nightfall or a solar eclipse
 And to wake up half empty
 Only to be filled again with mourning
 He's my evil shadow dove
 My black Palamito
 Can't break him like a diamond skull
 I can't seem to do so
 Can't just rub him out like the
 Mob used to do so
 Like memories of porno and teastains and tobacco, oh
 It's a mini disastro
 Bigger than the ice age
 Don't know if baby dinosaurs
 Maybe could live through it
 Or Indians and butterflies
 What's crushed is my spirit
 Oh, I fear it is too fragile
 Like fall-leaves burn like paper
 I always knew
 I would spend a lot of time alone
 No one would understand me
 Maybe I should go and live amongst the animals?
 Spend all my time
 Amongst the animals
 And on the tracks
 I would go
 They lead to the sea
 To be amongst the animals
 Oh, I'm just a fall-leaf something simple and shy like that
 That's how my heart lies down beside the sidewalk
 Like an empty restaurant filled with perfume and balloons
 I sit and entertain the bizarre ghosts of my soul, Lord
 His name still lingers, maybe lactates on my tongue
 Perhaps I'm just teething for a foreign fallen destiny
 Miserable but mine
 I look like his mother or Sophia Loren in an
 Old fashioned movie
 Slow motion I cling to my child
 Desperate for love
 One day soon my brother died, made me remember all the
 Subordinate feelings I cast aside, and
 Maybe I had lied when I said I was ok
 Just getting along like a little song that stops to sing and say
 Wild willow, windy winter
 Won't you blow through me?
 My whole eternity
 I always knew
 I would spend a lot of time alone
 No one would understand me
 Maybe I should go and live amongst the animals?
 Spend all my time
 Amongst the animals
 And on the tracks
 I would go
 They lead to the sea
 To be amongst the animals
 I always knew
 I would spend a lot of time alone
 No one would understand me
 Maybe I should go and live amongst the animals?
 Spend all my time
 Amongst the animals
 And on the tracks
 I would go
 They lead to the sea
 To be amongst the animals